Category: Dating + Relationships
This City Knows Our Name
She used to feel like home. back when I couldn’t tell the difference between the hand I wanted to hold and the thumb she held me under. The crushing pressure of my reflection sinking further until I couldn’t see myself existing outside of her shadow. And just like my home, Read more
The Brothers
Mr. Harley was one of those fun, quirky uncles who filled a room, except he wasn’t family. He was always at our house. I can clearly picture him perched up on dad’s ladder, a roll-your-own smoke dangling from his bottom lip, one long muscled arm holding a ream of wallpaper Read more
Yes, Please
darling dare me to share my craving held close fluid in dreams help me darling exonerate my whisper of denial cajole the eros restrained under your jurisdiction I will submit revelling reaching touching divine deliverance this wish will come true I carry in my soul a lifetime of benediction gratefully Read more
Blue-Aged Love
I search for you like a lost lover of jazz, I find you in the dim as you play a deceiver of love, where love is never free prices to pay at every bank vault. Waiting for musical clouds to form in all the shapes we always talked about. A Read more
I Was Told to Ignore the Abuse
They told me to ignore the words you said, “Don’t let him get to you. Try a different way of being. Be different; let him know you want him. He is just frightened of commitment. He will calm down soon.” I started to see your entitled feelings; I think they are Read more
Sounding
Words sometimes settle between thighs. Eye up—all night think how I don’t your shoulder brush, cough don’t, you away, leg. I don’t acknowledge your mouth when you’re talk -ing, how can you? Talking such silence between an affect. Sounding pangs liquid off every windshield tears the sky open. Tears, tears. Read more
